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Peaceful Garden Hydrangea Big Hug Card

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This lovely Hydrangea paper from the Peaceful Garden designer series paper from Stampin’ Up is just enchanting.  The colors are so pretty with the blues, just infatuated! 

To create this card, you just need a few things:

  • Secret Sea card stock (2025-2027 In Color Stampin’ Up)
  • White card stock
  • Peaceful Garden designer series paper (September 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Peace on Earth stamp set (September 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Secret Sea ink (2025-2027 In Color Stampin’ Up)
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice
  • Pop dots

With your Secret Sea card stock cut a card base of 5 ½” x 8 ½” and fold in half to 4 ¼” x 5 ½”.  The cut a piece to 3” x 4 ¼” and another piece to 2” x 2”.  From your white card stock cut a piece to 4” x 5 ¼” for the inside of your card and another to 1 ¾” x 1 ¾”.  Take your Peaceful Garden designer series paper and find the hydrangea paper and the Cloud Cover hashed paper.  With the Hydrangea paper, cut a piece to 2” x 4”.  From the Cloud Cover hashed paper cut a piece to 4” x 5 ¼”. 

Take the Cloud Cover hashed piece and adhere it to the front of your card.  With the Hydrangea paper you cut, adhere that to the Secret Sea piece cut to 3” x 4 ¼” and adhere to at to the upper left side of your card front, leaving about ¼” of your Cloud Cover hashed paper on each side of your corner. 

Adhere your white square piece to the Secret Sea square.  From the Peace on Earth stamp set find the “Big hugs for a good friend” stamp and stamp in the center of your white square in Secret Sea ink.  Adhere to the lower right corner on the front of your card with pop dots. 

With the inside of the card, adhere the white piece of card stock.  From the Peace on Earth stamp set find the “all the best in your new adventure” stamp and stamp with your Secret Sea ink. 

I just want to be able to send this card to someone as I just love it. 

If you are interested in seeing other card ideas, please visit my blog at www.daisychainfun.com or follow my website. 

All cards are handmade and photos taken by DaisyChainFun.

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Painterly Pears Green Themed Friend Card

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This layered card turned out so cute, I still am in love with this Painterly Pears designer series paper and the Perfectly Pears stamp and dies set from Stampin’ Up. 

To create this card, you just need a few things:

  • Old Olive card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • White card stock
  • Painterly Pears designer series paper (July 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Perfectly Pears stamp set and dies (July 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Traditional Label Dies (August 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Corner rounder punch
  • Paper trimmer
  • Scissors
  • Adhesive of choice
  • Pop dots

With a piece of Old Olive card stock cut your card base to 5 ½” x 8 ½” and fold in half to 4 ¼” x 5 ½”.  Cut another piece to 2 ¼” x 4 5/8”.  From a piece of white card stock cut a piece for the inside of your card to 4” x 5 ¼”.  From the Painterly Pears designer series paper find the Old Olive Leaf piece and cut to 4” x 5 ¼”.  From the white paper with pear edges cut one of the edge pieces to 2” x 4 3/8”.  Use your corner rounder punch to round the four corners of each piece you just cut, including your card base. 

From some of the spare pear paper cut out one of the single reddish pears and one of the green double pears with a pair of scissors.  From a spare piece of white card stock stamp “A good friend is a gift” from the Perfectly Pears stamp set and stamp in Old Olive ink  Use the smaller decorative oval from Traditional Label dies to cut out the stamped white piece and the larger oval to cut out a piece of Old Olive card stock and also one of the branches with leaves dies.   

Adhere your green leaf designer series paper piece to the front of your card base.  Then adhere your white pear designer series paper piece to the Old Olive piece and adhere to the front of your card about ½” down from the top and about ¾” in from the left.  Then adhere your white oval label to the green one.  Tear up the sections of the leaves you cut and adhere around the back of your label for decoration, leaving one section to adhere to the lower right corner of your label.  Adhere your reddish pear you cut out with those last leaves in the lower right corner of the label.  Now adhere your label slightly below the middle on the right side of the front of your card. 

On the inside of your card adhere your white piece of card stock to the inside and adhere the double green pears you cut out to the lower left corner of the white piece.  Use the “So grateful” greeting from the Soft Seedlings stamp set and stamp on the upper center of the inside of your card in Old Olive ink.

I think this card is just so lovely, anyone would be so thrilled to receive it in the mail letting them know you are grateful for their friendship. 

If you are interested in seeing other card ideas, please visit my blog at www.daisychainfun.com or follow my website. 

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Gathering Together Many Thanks Fall Card

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This fall thank you card is just so pretty, the colors are just perfect.  It is made with the Gathering Together suite from Stampin’ Up.

To create this card, you just need a few things:

  • Old Olive card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • Crushed Curry card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • White card stock
  • Gathering Together designer series paper (September 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Gathering Moments stamp set and dies (September 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Traditional Label Dies (August 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Old Olive ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Crushed Curry ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Cajan Craze ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Early Expresso ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice

From a piece of Old Olive card stock cut a card base to 5 ½” x 8 ½” and fold in half to 4 ¼” x 5 ½”.  Take the Crushed Curry Card Stock and cut a strip to ½” x 4 1/8”.  Then from the Gathering Together designer series paper pack find the Old Olive striped paper and also the leaf paper with the large Old Olive leaves.  Cut the striped paper to 2” x 4 1/8” and the leaf paper to 4” 4 1/8”.   Adhere the leaf paper to the top portion of your card and the Old Olive striped paper to the bottom.  Adhere the Crushed Curry strip across the point where they meet. 

From some scrap white card stock stamp two of the large leaves in Crushed Curry, three smaller leaves in Old Olive ink along with two of the branches, two mushrooms in Cajan Craze ink and three of the small berry branches in Early Expresso ink.  Cut them all out with the applicable dies.  Then stamp the “Many Thanks” greeting in Old Olive and cut out with one of the Traditional Label Dies. 

Adhere the “Many Thanks” label to the right side over the Crushed Curry strip on the front of your card.  Decorate the top right with one of the smaller Old Olive leaves and an Early Expresso berry branch.  On the left side of the green striped paper on the bottom front of your card use a large Crushed Curry leaf, a smaller Old Olive leaf, and Old Olive branch, two Early Expresso berry branches and a Cajan Craze mushroom for the middle.  Adhere them around as desired. 

Now let’s get the inside put together.  Adhere the white piece you cut to the inside for your card.  With the “Expressing heartfelt gratitude” greeting and Old Olive ink stamp the greeting in the upper center of your white inside piece.  Decorate the lower left corner with the remaining pieces you stamped and cut. 

This is such a beautiful card to thank anyone for something special. 

If you are interested in seeing other card ideas, please visit my blog at www.daisychainfun.com or follow my website. 

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Prairie Grass Here For You Card

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This is a quick and easy card that you can use for any occasion by just changing the greeting.  This is made using the Prairie Grass stamp set from Stampin’ Up. 

To create this card, you just need a few things:

  • White card stock
  • Prairie Grass stamp set (August 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Old Olive ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Seaside Spray ink (retired 2019-2021 In Colors Stampin’ Up)
  • Chocolate Chip ink (retired Stampin’ Up)
  • Blending Brushes
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice
  • Pop dots

From white card stock cut a piece to 4 ¼” x 11” and fold in half for your card base.  Then cut another to 4” x 5 ¼” and another to 3 ¾” x 5”. 

With the 3 ¾” x 5” piece of white card stock, take your Old Olive ink and a blender brush and color the lower half of the paper, then do the upper portion with the Seaside Spray ink.  With the large grass stamp from the Prairie Grass stamp set and your Chocolate Chip ink stamp to the left side running off just a bit. 

On a scrap piece of white card stock use the “You’re not alone I’m here for you” greeting and stamp in Chocolate Chip ink.  Use the oval die from the Traditional Labels dies to cut out.  Adhere to the upper right corner about ¾” from the top. 

Adhere to the 4” x 5 ¼” piece of white card stock and then adhere that to the card base with pop dots. 

For the inside of the card take the “sometimes life is just hard” greeting stamp in Chocolate Chip ink toward the top.  In the lower left corner stamp the medium sized grass in Chocolate Chip ink. 

You have a nice card to give to someone who has lost someone or is just having a hard time.  At least it can let them know you are thinking about them and are there for them.

If you are interested in seeing other card ideas, please visit my blog at www.daisychainfun.com or follow my website. 

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Fall for Toile Fall Themed Card

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I love fall, and this card made with the Fall for Toile Paper Pumkin kit just fits right in for the season, especially with the acorn accent.  This Thinking of You card just offers a lovely card for anyone. 

To create this card, you just need a few things:

  • Fall for Toile Paper Pumpkin Kit (September 2025 Paper Pumpkin Stampin’ Up)
  • White card stock
  • Fall for Toile stamp set (September 2025 Paper Pumpkin Stampin’ Up)
  • Early Expresso ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice
  • Pop dots

From your Fall for Toile September 2025 Paper Pumpkin Kit find two of the card bases with the trees and deer.  Then also two of the yellow and orange leaves pieces (one of each direction), one of the large white circles and then one of the small tan circles.  Then also three pieces of the ribbon. 

Take the large white circle and the “Wishing you the happiest of days” stamp and with the Early Expresso ink stamp in the center of the large white circle.  Use the acorn stamp with the Early Expresso ink and stamp to the middle of the small tan circle. 

With the large white circle, adhere your two yellow and orange leaf pieces using pop dots to the back of the circle and curl up the edges of the leaves for dimension.  Take two of the pieces of ribbon and fold each in half and adhere to the back of the leaves, trim ends angled to desired length.  Adhere to the upper front of your card base.  Take the acorn circle and adhere to the lower left side. 

For the inside of your card take the second tree and deer card base and trip the front portion down to 4” x 5 ¼”.  Wrap the third piece of ribbon around the left side and adhere down to the inside of your card.  Take one of the white banner labels from the kit and with your Early Expresso ink stamp the “Thinking of you” greeting.  Adhere under the ribbon about 5/8” down.  Then cut a piece of white card stock to 3” x 3” and adhere under the ribbon as well. 

You can use this card to let someone know you are thinking of them today and hoping they have a great day.

If you are interested in seeing other card ideas, please visit my blog at www.daisychainfun.com or follow my website. 

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Floral Charm Rose Birthday Card

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This beautiful birthday card in these soft subtle colors made with the Floral Charm designer series paper is perfect for those females in your life. 

To create this card, you just need a few things:

  • Cinnamon Cider card stock (Retired Stampin’ Up)
  • Petal Pink card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • White card stock
  • Floral Charm designer series paper (July 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Charming Day stamp and die set (July 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Cinnamon Cider ink (Retired Stampin’ Up)
  • Subtle 3D Embossing Folder (Retired Stampin’ Up)
  • Charming Shimmer Faceted Dots (July 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice

Start with Cinnamon Cider card stock and cut your card base to 5 ½” x 8 ½” and fold in half.  Cut another piece to 3 ½” x 3 ½” and a strip to 7/8” 4 1/8”.  From a piece of Petal Pink card stock cut a piece to 4 1/8” x 5 3/8”, one to 4” x 5 ¼ for the inside of your card, a piece to 3 3/8” x 3 3/8” and a strip to ¾” x 4 1/8”.  With a piece of white card stock cut a piece for the inside of your card to 3 ¾” x 5”.  Then from the Floral Charm designer series paper pack find the rose piece and cut a piece to 3 ¼” x 3 ¼”. 

Take your piece of 4 1/8” x 5 3/8” Petal Pink piece you cut and use the Subtle 3D embossing folder to emboss then adhere to the front of your card base.  With the square Rose piece, adhere that to the square Petal Pink piece and then adhere that to the Cinnamon Cider square piece.  Now adhere that to the upper portion of your card evenly spaced on the sides and top. 

With your Charming Day stamp set get the “Happy Birthday” greeting stamp and Cinnamon Cider ink and stamp on your Petal Pink strip to the right side.  Adhere to your Cinnamon Cider strip and then adhere to the lower portion of your card centered in the open space.  Use three of the Charming Shimmer Faceted Dots lined in a row on the left side of your strip. 

For the inside of your card adhere your white card stock piece to the Petal Pink piece and adhere to the inside of your card.  With a birthday greeting stamp and your Cinnamon Cider ink, stamp your greeting in the upper center.  With a scrap piece of Petal Pink card stock cut out one of the roses from the die set and then with Mossy Meadow card stock cut out one of the leaf pieces.  Tear off a few of the leaves and adhere your rose and leaves in the lower left corner.

This is a great birthday card for anybody in your life who loves flowers or would love a feminine card like this.

If you are interested in seeing other card ideas, please visit my blog at www.daisychainfun.com or follow my website. 

All cards are handmade and photos taken by DaisyChainFun.

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Peaceful Garden Sending Love Card

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This simple card made from Peaceful Garden designer series paper from Stampin’ Up makes a great card to let a friend know you are thinking of them.    

To create this card, you just need a few things:

  • Basic Beige card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • White card stock
  • Peaceful Garden designer series paper (Stampin’ Up July Online Exclusive)
  • Peace on Earth stamp set and dies (Stampin’ Up July Online Exclusive)
  • Nature sprig dies (I think they were Stampin’ Up but not for sure)
  • Secret Sea ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Cream colored Bakers Twine (Stampin’ Up)
  • Small hole punch
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice
  • Pop dots

From your white card stock cut a card base to 5 ½” x 8 ½”, and fold in half.  Cut another piece to 3 ¾” x 5”.  With your Basic Beige card stock cut two pieces to 4” x 5 ¼”.  Find the Secret Sea piece with the nature sprigs on it in the Peaceful Garden designer series paper pack.  Cut a piece to 3 ¾” x 5 ½”. 

With a spare piece of white card stock cut a nature sprig and also the small label die from the Peace on Earth dies.  With the Basic Beige cut two smaller nature sprig and a large label with the die from the Peach on Earth set. 

With the “Sending” and “Love” stamps from the Peace on Earth stamp set and your Secret Sea ink, stamp on the white label slightly to the right.  Adhere to the Basic Beige label.  With your small hole punch (about 1/8”) punch two holes one each end of your label.  Cut four pieces of the cream Bakers Twine about 6” long each.  Feed two pieces of twine through a whole on one end and then through a whole on the other with both ends coming up through the label, and repeat with the other two pieces of twine.  Adhere your label with pop dots to the front of your designer series paper, slightly to the right.  Adhere your sprigs with the white one to the front and the two Basic Beige one’s to the back and adhere to the left side of your label. Take your white card stock base and adhere one of the Basic Beige pieces and then the designer series paper to that. 

For the inside of the card, take your white card stock piece, your Secret Sea ink and the greeting stamp “Big hugs for a good friend” and stamp in the upper center.  Adhere that to the piece of Basic Beige and then to the inside of your card. 

There is a great card to send to any friend who needs a bit of cheering up. 

If you are interested in seeing other card ideas, please visit my blog at www.daisychainfun.com or follow my website.  Also, if you would like to purchase any Stampin’ Up products, please visit my website at https://www.stampinup.com/?demoid=2269501.

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Painterly Pears Secret Sea Friend Card

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This Secret Sea Pear paper from the Painterly Pears designer series paper from Stampin’ Up is one of my favorites right now and just makes such elegant looking cards. 

To create this card, you just need a few things:

  • Secret Sea card stock (2025-2027 In Colors Stampin’ Up)
  • Darling Duckling card stock (2025-2027 In Colors Stampin’ Up)
  • White card stock
  • Perfectly Pears designer series paper (July 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Perfectly Pears stamp set (2025-2027 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Secret Sea ink (2025-2027 In Colors Stampin’ Up)
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice

Take a piece of Secret Sea card stock and cut a card base of 5 ½” x 8 ½” and fold in half to form your card base of 4 ¼” x 8 ½”.  From your Darling Duckling card stock cut two pieces to 4 1/8” x 5 3/8” and another to 1 5/8” x 4”.  Then from your white card stock cut a piece to 4” x 5 ¼” for the inside of your card. 

With your Painterly Pears designer series paper find the Secret Sea pear piece and cut to 4” x 5 ¼”.  Then find the piece that has the pears around the outside with the white center and cut a piece from the left edge that has a pear or design you would like that fits to the right with white space left to the left for your greeting and cut to 1 ½” x 4”. 

Adhere one of your Darling Duckling 4 1/8” x 5 3/8” pieces to the front of your card and then adhere your Secret Sea pear paper to that.  The take the smaller piece of Darling Duckling paper and adhere across the front of your card, slightly toward the top.  Take the white pear piece and adhere to that.

Find the “A good friend is a gift” greeting from the Perfectly Pears stamp set and with your Secret Sea ink stamp on the white portion of your white pear paper.

For the inside of your card adhere your Darling Duckling piece to the inside and then your white piece onto that.  From a scrap piece of your white pear paper cut out one of the larger pears with some of the flowers around it and adhere to the lower right corner. 

This is a great card to give a friend so say you care.

If you are interested in seeing other card ideas, please visit my blog at www.daisychainfun.com or follow my website. 

All cards are handmade and photos taken by DaisyChainFun.

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Soft Seedlings Thinking of You Card

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I have had this Soft Seedlings stamp set from Stampin’ Up for over a year and haven’t used it until today for anything more than the greetings.  It was a fun set as I inked it and then sprayed it with water to give a great effect. 

To create this card, you just need a few things:

  • More Mustard card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • Basic Beige card stock
  • Soft Seedlings stamp set (Stampin’ Up)
  • More Mustard ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Spray bottle with water
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice

From the More Mustard card stock cut a card base to 5 ½” x 8 ½” and fold in half to 4 ¼” x 5 ½” and a stripe to 1 ¼” x 5 ½”.  From the Basic Beige cut two pieces to 4” x 5 ½” and a strip to 1” x 4 ½”. 

Take one of the 4” x 5 ¼” of Basic Beige and with the large leaf stamp and your More Mustard ink and ink the stamp, then stray with some water and stamp in one corner just slightly off of each edge.  Do the same in the opposite corner.  In the other two corners do the same but just stamp part of the large leaf, not the stem or helicopters.  Adhere to the front of your card base.

With the strip of Basic Beige stamp the “Thinking of You” greeting in More Mustard ink and then stamp part of the helicopter stamp on each end.  Adhere to the More Mustard strip and the adhere to the front of your card on an angle and trip the ends to match the angle of your card. 

Take the other piece of Basic Beige and adhere to the inside of your card.  Use the “So grateful” greeting stamp and stamp with More Mustard ink to the upper center of the inside of your card.  Then with More Mustard ink stamp a helicopter in the lower left corner. 

Let anyone you are thinking of them and are grateful for them with this fall card.

If you are interested in seeing other card ideas, please visit my blog at www.daisychainfun.com or follow my website. 

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Fall for Toile Paper Pumpkin Fall Fields Card

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The Fall for Toile Paper Pumpkin kit has some adorable card pieces.  This one uses the corn field base with the pumpkins added, making a lovely fall card. 

To create this card, you just need a few things:

  • Fall for Toile Paper Pumpkin Kit (September 2025 Paper Pumpkin Stampin’ Up)
  • Timid Tiger card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • Fall for Toile stamp set (September 2025 Paper Pumpkin Stampin’ Up)
  • Early Expresso ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice
  • Pop dots

From your Timid Tiger card stock cut a piece to 3 5/8” x 4 7/8”.  Take a brown checkered card base from the kit and fold in half, then adhere the Timid Tiger to the front.  Then take one of the corn field background pieces and adhere to the Timid Tiger. 

Take one of the pumpkin pieces and adhere that with pop dots to the lower left of your field piece.  Now with one of the long tag pieces stamp the “thinking of you greeting” in Early Expresso ink.  Adhere to a piece of Timid Tiger and trim around label leaving about 1/16” all the way around.  Adhere the label to the upper right of your corn field piece leaving the flag end overhanging slightly. 

I left the inside of this card blank for a note to be able to be used for any occasion,

If you are interested in seeing other card ideas, please visit my blog at www.daisychainfun.com or follow my website.  All cards are handmade and photos taken by DaisyChainFun.

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